Quotes by : Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit....

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

God helps them that helps themselves.

[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I advance....